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...made Harvard alert to the issues of the Riverside neighborhood," says state Rep. Alvin E. Thompson (D-Cambridge). "They started to change the neighborhood...
Little more than one year after the demonstration, Graham was elected to the Cambridge City Council, where she served until her retirement in 1989. In 1986, she was elected as a state representative, and she served in the State House until she was defeated by Rep. Thompson...
Reviving a hot-button issue from the 1988 presidential election, Rep. Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.) testified at a House subcommittee hearing that "Eighty percent of the American people" want a constitutional amendment banning flag desecration. Solomon, chief sponsor of such a bill, which the House is expected to take up next month, says flag burning is not speech or expression but "a hateful tantrum," and should not be protected. Opponents of the bill say it would infringe on free-speech rights and amounts to "constitutional desecration." Supporters say the measure already has 272 of the 290 votes it needs...
Depending on who you listen to, State Rep. Alvin E. Thompson (D-Cambridge) has been either a long-time advocate of tenant and worker rights or an ineffectual politician relying on the force of his personal popularity to stay in office...
Thompson and State Rep. Timothy J. Toomey Jr. (D-Cambridge) shepherded the city's home-rule petition to salvage some forms of rent control for low-income tenants following the passage of a state referendum last fall to abolish...